Soheb Niazi is a poet based in Delhi. He has been a student of Politics from  Jawaharlal Nehru University. His writings have been published in various journals across the internet. His poems most recently were part of the journal Le Zaporogue 13. Visit his blog to read more of his poems.

---

TWO POEMS
            by Soheb Niazi

---

LULL LIKE BEFORE

tulips cannot be roses not roses just any flower
cold wind chills bone no bone that not chills
impervious to sound sight and smell
we march so blind no march so ever fade
into walls thick thicker than yet before
who is to blame? who is to blame?
both friends and foes have never been so bore
such that they wore stupors glistening of gold
of breezy interludes breaking intent back bare
resign we must to luck not luck to fail

---

HALF A SONNET TO GINSBERG

showing your new copy of Ginsberg to your father was
precisely what Ginsberg spoke of as
his gravest fear at being published; a mistake
father, reading till all the very end, pronouncing
the syllables rolled at the back of the bend
of queers, of sex and dope so lay
out there to lick lust lisp lick and play

---